Are Aid Agencies Improving

By William R. Easterly. 2007

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Subfields: Development, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices (2011, unknown): “…here the trends in total aid shares going to low income countries, corrupt governments, unfree countries, and unfree + part free countries.31 Easterly (2007) and Easterly and Pfutze (2008) both noted the lack of evidence for the conventional wisdom that donors became more sensitive to…”
Aid with multiple personalities (2009, methodology): “Easterly (2007) uses the Herfindahl-Hirschman index to calculate the donor fragmentation index as a measure of specialization.”
International financing for climate change adaptation in small island developing states (2017, result): “This finding has parallels with the literature on aid allocation, which also generally finds a negative correlation between per capita income and aid received (see Alesina and Dollar 2000; Easterly 2007; Riddell 2007).”
Does Fair Trade Deliver on Its Core Value Proposition? Effects on Income, Educational Attainment, and Health in Three Countries (2009, background): “…use the word “hypothesis”) is that this intervention, like so many other interventions in the “development” of Latin America and other parts of the globe marginalized by the current organization of the world economy, does not produce detectable positive results (Easterly 2006, 2007; Sanchez 2002).”
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid (2008, background): “The fragmentation of aid spending has increased over time as new trendy targets for aid are enunciated (Easterly 2007).”
Evidence on Changes in Aid Allocation Criteria (2009, background): “Easterly (2007) expresses a contrarian view, finding no consistent evidence of increased selectivity with respect to policies and only temporarily increased selectivity in the late 1990s with respect to corruption.”